SUMMARY

20:39 UTC | 13:39 PT We saw a 10 minute period of intermittent accessibility and search issues on Pod 14. The services have now recovered.

POST-MORTEM

An unexpected spike in search queries of increasing length resulted in a very expensive operation for Elasticsearch. This caused a high load in some data nodes in Elasticsearch which then resulted in a spike in service latency. In order to prevent this from happening again in the future, we are adding additional capacity and data nodes to pod 14.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

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